„Azure Virtual Datacenter is a way to think about deploying your application estate in a cloud-based architecture while preserving key aspects of your current IT governance and taking advantage of cloud computing’s agility.

There are very real, underlying differences between hosting in the cloud and running in a traditional datacenter. Achieving the level of governance in the cloud environment that you experience in a traditional datacenter requires a sound understanding of why you do what you do today, and how that is achieved in Azure.